Tradition 34 of 35
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Mythic systems, traditional folklore, sacred and supernatural legends, fairy tales, and documented folk beliefs that preserve or contextualize magical, spiritual, anomalous, and otherworldly traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 20,091
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 72%
- 14,383 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match17,236
- Metadata match585
- Query match2,265
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Folklore3.6K
- Legends2.1K
- Fairy tales1.8K
- Tales1.5K
- Fiction1.4K
- History1.1K
- Mythology840
- Early works to 1800760
- Poetry694
- Juvenile fiction684
- Translations into English635
- Social life and customs617
- History and criticism530
- Drama509
- Juvenile literature491
- Religion485
- Greek Mythology475
- Superstition473
- Classical Mythology437
- Short Stories350
- Indians of North America341
- Children's stories334
- Horror tales293
- Biography292
Top languages
- English8,343 · 42%
- German4,162 · 21%
- French1,648 · 8%
- Latin836 · 4%
- NOT738 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- ca. v6. Jh Aesopus135 books
- Hans Christian Andersen102 in this tradition103 books
- Andrew Lang70 in this tradition83 books
- Charles Perrault66 in this tradition76 books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne64 in this tradition74 books
- ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus58 books
- Euripides56 in this tradition59 books
- Jacob Grimm55 books
- Benjamin Blake52 books
- Edgar Allan Poe51 in this tradition63 books
- Jean de La Fontaine50 in this tradition56 books
- Wilhelm Grimm50 in this tradition53 books
20,091 books
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The Old English Physiologus
Albert Albert Stanburrough Cook, Cynewulf, James Hall Pitman
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The Old House, and Other Tales
Fyodor Sologub, John Cournos
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The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano
Ludwig Tieck
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The Olive Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford
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The Only Woman in the Town, and Other Tales of the American Revolution
Sarah Sarah Johnson Prichard
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The Open Window: Tales of the Months
Mabel Osgood Wright
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The Orange Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford
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The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
Carveth Read
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The Orkney book
John Gunn
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The Osage tribe, two versions of the child-naming rite
Francis La Flesche
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The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 2 of 2)
Frederick George Lee
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The Oxford Book of Ballads
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 1 (of 2)
Frederick Metcalfe
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The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 2 (of 2)
Frederick Metcalfe
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The Pacha of Many Tales
Frederick Marryat
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The Paladins of Edwin the Great
Clements Clements Robert Markham, Ralph Peacock
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The Parenticide Club
Ambrose Bierce
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The Penance of Magdalena and Other Tales of the California Missions
J. Smeaton Chase
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The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1
Firdawsi, active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, Omar Khayyam, Richard Richard James Horatio Gottheil, James Atkinson, Herman Bicknell, Edward FitzGerald
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The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
Sadi, James Ross
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The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories
Charles Egbert Craddock
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The Pharaohs and Their People: Scenes of old Egyptian life and history
E Berkley
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The Piper: A Play in Four Acts
Josephine Preston Peabody
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The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North Cornwall
Enys Tregarthen, J. Ley Pethybridge
Date unknown